Jimmy Carter offers to talk peace with North Korea's Kim, says academic
Source: The Guardian
Jimmy Carter has reportedly said he is willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a bid to defuse tensions over Pyongyangs nuclear and missile programmes, and bring permanent peace to the Korean peninsula.
In an intervention that is likely to irritate Donald Trump, the 93-year-old former president told a South Korean academic that he was willing to travel to the North Korean capital if it meant preventing war.
Should former president Carter be able to visit North Korea, he would like to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and discuss a peace treaty between the United States and the North, and a complete denuclearisation of North Korea, Park Han-shik, a professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, told South Koreas JoongAng Daily newspaper.
Park said Carter told him during a meeting at his home in Georgia at the end of September that he wanted to contribute toward establishing a permanent peace regime on the Korean peninsula.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/10/jimmy-carter-offers-to-talk-peace-with-north-koreas-kim-says-academic
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Add Bill Clinton. We'd have a lock.
mainer
(12,022 posts)Wouldn't it be great if all four former Presidents went together? Carter, Bush Jr., Clinton, and Obama.
That would really make Trump blow a gasket.
ananda
(28,866 posts)nt
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Trump will never support him,. He will sabotage ant progress.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Unfortunately, we're living in Nutsoland and the F**king Moron will scream, "No, only I can fix this!"
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)5...4...3...
Bayard
(22,083 posts)Save our asses!
karynnj
(59,504 posts)and he went on a mission there to get the release of an AMerican (as Bill Clinton did for 2 women the year before)
Here is a CNN article written before the 2010 trip. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/24/north.korea.carter.backstory/index.html
If he were to go, this would be the third NK leader he met with in post Presidential times.
I can not think of anyone better than Carter -- for exactly the story in the beginning of the article. He likely was completely correct that it was respect that was wanted.
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)I agree, he's the best resource we have and he's willing to step up...
Time for Jimmy Carter to Go Back to North Korea
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016193952